Leonid Berkut

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Leonid Mykolajowytsch Berkut ( Ukrainian Леонід Миколайович Беркут , Russian Леонид Николаевич Беркут Leonid Nikolayevich Berkut ; born July 3 . Jul / 15. July  1879 greg. In Kiev , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 12. February 1940 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) was a Ukrainian and Soviet historian and university professor.

Life

Leonid Berkut graduated from the Faculty of History and Philosophy at St. Vladimir University in Kiev in 1901 and subsequently worked there as an assistant professor. From 1907 to 1909 he went on an academic trip to Germany and France, where he studied Western European medieval history, palaeography and law. Between 1909 and 1915 he taught as an assistant professor and between 1915 and 1917 as a professor at the University of Warsaw . He also taught higher women's courses in Warsaw from 1910 to 1917. In London in 1913 he took part in the 3rd International Congress of Historians as a representative of the University of Warsaw. From 1918 to 1922 he was a professor at the University in Rostov-on-Don worked and in 1922 at the University of Kiev. He died in Kiev at the age of 60 and was buried in the Lukjanivska cemetery .

plant

Berkut wrote about 30 monographs. He examined the Central European Middle Ages, the historiography of the Middle Ages and the modern era and dealt with the problems of historical methodology. Including:

  • Introduction to the History of the Middle Ages (Warsaw, 1911)
  • History of German Cities in the Middle Ages (Warsaw, 1912)
  • Essays on secondary source history during the formation and consolidation of the nation-states in the Roman-Germanic West (Kiev, 1928)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Leonid Berkut in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on June 4, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  2. ^ Entry on Leonid Berkut in the encyclopedia of the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev; accessed on June 4, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ a b Entry on Leonid Berkut in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on June 4, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  4. ^ Entry on Leonid Berkut in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on June 4, 2019 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Berkut, Leonid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berkut, Leonid Mykolajowytsch (full name); Беркут, Леонід Миколайович (Ukrainian); Беркут, Леонид Николаевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian and Soviet historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1940
Place of death Kiev, Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union